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Oksana Nesterenko is a musicologist specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music and postcolonial studies. She holds a PhD in Music History and Theory from Stony Brook University. Her current book project, A Forbidden Fruit? Sacred Music in the USSR before its Fall, was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus. The forthcoming book redefines the concept of contemporary sacred music and explores art music with religious themes in Armenia, Estonia, Ukraine and Russia. Dr. Nesterenko’s writing has been published in Perspectives of New Music, Yale Journal of Music & Religion, Musicology Now, the Claquers, and other publications. She is a host and a co-founder of Extended Techniques, a podcast and blog about contemporary music in New York. At the Cali School of Music, Dr. Nesterenko teaches music history courses.